题目内容：

My l4-year-old son, John, and I spotted the coat which was hanging at a secondhand clothing store in Northampton Mass. While the other coats drooped (低垂), this one looked as if it were ______ . The coat had beautiful tailoring, a Fifth Avenue label and a(an) ______ price of $28, which was popular just then with ______ , but could cost several hundred dollars new. This coat was even better, bearing (具 有) that ______ of classic elegance. John tried it on and the fit was perfect.

John ______ the coat to school the next day and came home wearing a big smile “Did the kids like your coat?” I asked. “They loved it,” he said, ____ folding it over the back of a chair and smoothing it flat. Over the next few weeks, a ____ came over John. Agreement replaced contrariness (作对) and reasoned discussion replaced fierce ______ . He became more mannerly and ______ , eager to please. He would generously lend his younger sister his tapes and lecture her ____ her behavior.

When I mentioned this incident to his teacher and ______ what caused the changes, she said laughing. “It ______ be his coat!” Another teacher told him she was giving him a good ______ not only because he had earned ______ but because she liked his coat. At the library, we ran into a friend. “Could this be John?” he asked surprisingly, ______ John's new height, assessing(评估) the cut of his coat and extending his hand, one gentleman to another.

John and I both know we should never ______ a person's clothes for the real person within them. _____ there is something to be said for wearing a standard of excellence for the world to see and for ______ what is on the inside to what is on the outside.

For John it is a time when it is as easy to try on different approaches to ____ as it is to try on a coat. The whole world, the whole future is stretched out ahead, a vast landscape _____ all the doors are open. And he could picture himself walking through those doors wearing his wonderful, magical coat.

1.A. turning itself up    B. holding itself up    C. showing itself up    D. hanging itself up

2.A. unreasonable    B. expected    C. unbelievable    D. acceptable

3.A. teenagers    B. adults    C. women    D. strangers

4.A. color    B. price    C. style    D. size

5.A. sent    B. carried    C. lent    D. wore

6.A. casually    B. comfortably    C. carefully    D. quickly

7.A. happiness    B. change    C. smile    D. matter

8.A. doubt    B. fight    C. argument    D. war

9.A. thoughtful    B. handsome    C. hopeful    D. curious

10.A. of    B. on    C. with    D. at

11.A. wondered    B. confirmed    C. concluded    D. discovered

12.A. can    B. must    C. will    D. should

13.A. present    B. mark    C. word    D. result

14.A. this    B. them    C. it    D. one

15.A. looking up at    B. looking down to    C. checking up    D. taking up

16.A. trust    B. mistake    C. exchange    D. regard

17.A. But    B. Though    C. Since    D. So

18.A. attaching    B. connecting    C. relating    D. matching

19.A. career    B. life    C. study    D. success

20.A. where    B. why    C. how    D. when